ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,466, issued on March 3.

"Paging in sidelink layer 3 relay systems" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for paging in sidelink L2 relay scenarios. An example method generally includes connecting, via a sidelink, to a relay user equipment (UE) connected to a network entity; receiving, from a network entity via the relay UE, configuration informa...